The U.S. Senate early Saturday afternoon voted to block ending debate on the DREAM Act amnesty bill. The legislation fell five votes short of the 60 needed to invoke cloture on the bill. The vote was 55-41. This vote marks a significant victory for amnesty foes. Read more...

Liberal economist Harold Meyerson isn't my cup of tea. I find I usually disagree with him, that he's too much of a Keynesian rather than a Smithian. But his recent column decrying offshoring to China and elsewhere in the Third World by big international corporations made an excellent point. If Big Business really does regard America as a global asset that directly benefits them, then they should stop shipping jobs abroad. Read more...

The Washington Post's resident apologist for mass amnesty and open borders has written about how he thinks Republican opposition to the DREAM Act amnesty is a strategic political mistake for the party if the GOP wishes to increase its share of the Latino vote. Read more...

Perhaps the most disturbing thing about the DREAM Act fight is how the U.S. military's top brass has taken the pro-amnesty side. Once people get posted at the Pentagon in the top echelons, it's like beat cops who become police chiefs: They become politicians. They're often not much more than political chameleons. Read more...

The Washington Post's Sunday front-page story tells a lot of details about how the FBI kept Portland, Oregonians safe from an immigrant Muslim extremist with homicide bombing on his mind. And, certainly, thank God the G-men were successful in this fascinating and frightful case. Read more...

Oh, the cruelty of leading people on and sowing false hopes. But the Democratic leadership in Congress and the Obama White House keep up the charade with the DREAM Act amnesty.

Before the election, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Robert Menendez put out the word that, yes, they had every intention of moving the DREAM Act. It was about as bald-faced a ploy as one could find – the real intention being to boost Latino turnout in the midterms from abysmal to very low. Read more...

The political uproar over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's staffer who committed marriage fraud with an immigrant highlights a very serious type of immigration offense. Fake marriages to enable undeserving foreigners to get a visa under false pretenses are just as wrong as sneaking across the border. (CIS has written about marriage fraud here.) Read more...

I recently discussed a Christian view of "Immigration & the Workforce" at a panel sponsored by Nyack College's Washington office. Nyack deserves credit, especially on one count: This panel was actually balanced: two speakers advocated amnesty and two opposed amnesty. Read more...

The New York Times reports on how Latino voters may sit out the midterm elections (based on a Pew Hispanic Center survey). That's not surprising. Non-presidential years usually see lower voter turnout overall. And the party in the White House typically see fewer of its voters go to the polls.

Latinos disproportionately vote Democratic. About two Hispanics are Democrats to each one who's a Republican. Read more...

The Wall Street Journal – whose editorial position is for open borders – reports that more Republican candidates for federal and state office this year are Latino. Furthermore, many prominent GOP Hispanic candidates are taking a hard line on immigration. Read more...

If you wanted to show the public that you mean business, and you're the nation's immigration enforcement agency, maybe you'd want to show some real results. Maybe you'd keep producing real results in a sustained manner. Maybe you'd think, "Hey, if we really, truly start enforcing the immigration laws and drop this de facto amnesty stuff, the public might be convinced that we're sincerely trying to do the job we're sworn to do." Read more...

If there's any doubt that the Obama administration is running headlong away from immigration enforcement and toward de facto amnesty, it will disappear with a quick review of the latest evidence. Read more...

Eighteen grassroots organizations, including NumbersUSA, Eagle Forum, ProEnglish, and Let Freedom Ring, have today released a jointly signed letter opposing an administrative end-run around Congress by the Obama administration. The scheme entails amnesty by bureaucratic means to legalize millions of illegal aliens through what are supposed to be exceptional-case powers. Read more...

A Senate-passed border bill has the Indian tech sector howling. Think about that, because it peels back the cover on yet another of our immigration vulnerabilities. Read more...

The legal injunction that blocks key parts of Arizona's law enforcement statute from taking effect doesn't pass the smell test. The ruling reeks of politics, not jurisprudence – in other words, judicial activism. Read more...

The Congressional Hispanic Caucus is pressing for amnesty, in part to qualify the current 11 million illegal aliens for public health (and other) programs. A report in Politico says these lawmakers secured the Obama administration's commitment to sweep illegals into taxpayer-funded health coverage as a condition for their votes for the health care bill: Read more...

The Justice Department's questionable lawsuit against Arizona's new immigration enforcement law makes for a target-rich environment. This legal action raises countless questions constitutional, legal, political. Here are just a few observations. Read more...

The President's call-for-amnesty speech, given Thursday at American University, should raise one main question in every American’s mind: Whose side is President Obama on? Read more...

Arizona's junior senator, Jon Kyl, deserves credit for exposing President Obama's position on immigration legislation: hold enforcement hostage to amnesty. Further, the senator deserves praise for standing his ground against the waves of hot air rolling his direction from the bully pulpit. Read more...

If you thought the U.S. Department of Justice's job was to ensure electoral fairness and equal justice under law for every legitimate American voter, think again. And what is happening in Port Chester, N.Y., likely foreshadows mass immigration's harmful effects on the land of e pluribus unum. Read more...

Well, the open-borders crowd is at it again. The "compassion" approach to selling the American people on mass amnesty and even higher legal immigration levels failed to attract a following, so the post-Americans are revamping their public message. In other words, open-borders spin spun out on them, so they're changing the language they use to try to sell amnesty and uncontrolled immigration. Read more...

Robert Samuelson, in his weekly column in the Washington Post, highlights a key factor in why U.S. poverty rates seem not to improve. Jesus warned that the poor will always be there. But after concerted efforts and giant leaps over more than half a century, surely America is doing better than the statistics show. Read more...

In the immigration debate, you hear a lot of outlandish claims, unsupported assertions, and loud warnings so questionable they make Chicken Little sound like a calm, reasoned, level-headed voice. But the new claim by big-city police chiefs looks about as bogus as anything put forth in this debate in a while. Read more...

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As President Obama, for the umpteenth time, trashes the common-sense Arizona immigration enforcement law, it's useful to consider once more the utter baselessness of such attacks. Read more...

A new push for mass amnesty involves the help of certain evangelicals. Democrats and the usual open-borders suspects have courted "leaders" of the evangelical strain for a couple of years now. Their efforts are paying off. A smattering of those religious elites has signed onto an advertisement calling for "immigration reform." The ad recently appeared in the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call and is part of a broader lobbying campaign. Read more...

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, not a good friend of immigration controls, actually has cracked the door slightly to keeping out foreign extremists.

On NPR’s“All Things Considered” radio program May 5, Secretary Napolitano was asked by host Robert Siegel about Times Square would-be bomber Faisal Shahzad and his apprehension. The interesting part of the interview, from an immigration policy standpoint, was this: Read more...

An item on the political website RealClearPolitics argues that Americans are just fine with high legal immigration – rather, it's just illegal immigration they have a problem with and are exercised about. But that argument doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Read more...

The Arizona legislature is showing that federalism still lives. State lawmakers have passed a bill to make it a state crime to reside in the state without proof of lawful U.S. residence. The legislation also empowers police officers to check a suspect's immigration status. Read more...

The U.S. Supreme Court blundered in its recent ruling in Padilla v. Kentucky, so look out for two things to follow on its heels: lots of immigrant criminals will go for – and get – a second bite at the judicial apple, and activist lawyers and ethnic advocacy groups could well rush to push the envelope of criminal alien legal rights. Read more...

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau's practice under Obama administration priorities is resulting in fewer overall deportations. That amounts to a law enforcement agency being hindered to the point of going soft on crime. Read more...